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urban trees

    Urban and Community Forestry

    Cambium Carbon Cuts Waste, Builds Green Future

    By Arbor Day Foundation | February 11, 2021

    By Bob Cunningham There are countless ways trees benefit urban communities and society as a whole, but they also come with a built-in hindrance: They are expensive. U.S. cities lose an average 36 million trees each year due to disease or infestation, age and extreme weather, resulting in economic losses up to $786 million annually. Cambium Carbon, in partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation, has made its mission to give trees a second life by saving them from landfills and…

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  • Misc Trees

    6 Ways Urban Trees Make You More Active Outdoors

    Healthy Trees, Healthy Lives Spending time outdoors in nature is not only fun, but it’s therapeutic and rejuvenating. Time spent in nature improves your physical, mental, and spiritual health. Residents who live in greener…

    By Sheereen Othman | August 17, 2020
  • Tree Planting and Care

    Are Your Trees Stressed?

    Guest post by John Lang of Friendly Tree. Believe it or not, trees get stressed, too. While trees in forests typically live for a hundred years or more, trees in cities and towns usually…

    By Arbor Day Foundation | September 17, 2018